Some wannabe comedians use their Web sites to get you to do odd and dangerous things
to your computer. One of the better Web sites to try is Using Rundll at http://www.ericphelps
.com/batch/rundll/.
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Figure 1.9
DLLs provide a lot of
hidden functionality
that you can access
with RunDLL32.
The registry might not contain a solution for every need. You can look at the DLLs directly using
an application such as Depends (Dependency Walker). You can??™t use the Dependency Walker at
the Server Core console, but you can use it at a client machine. This particular utility is used so often
by developers that it has its own Web site at http://www.dependencywalker.com/ with appropriate
download links for various platforms. Figure 1.10 shows a typical view of a DLL opened in
the Depends utility. Most of the information displayed in this figure has nothing to do with the
command line and you can ignore it. However, the second window on the right side of the display
shows the list of functions in the DLL.
Figure 1.10
Look for interesting
functions to run
in DLLs using the
Depends utility.
Of course, Depends won??™t tell you what task the function performs or how to use it.
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